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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Granted it’s useful to write your thoughts but I still feel like I have no clue on how to journal

Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I have been brain dumping my thoughts on journalling. It feels weird to write about something I am still trying to understand

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I hate journaling influencers. Why is everything all about aesthetics & not about writing? I saw a video of someone with a six journal ecosystem & they all look very pretty but it felt like there was more collaging than writing. Sure, do what you like but at what point does a journal become art?

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I heard someone talking about a check off list and it took me a little to long to work out they didn’t say Chekhov list

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue (translated by Natasha Wimmer) Part colonial dystopia & part hallucinatory fever dream. This explores the fall of Tenochtitlán in 1519, following the interactions of conquistador Hernán Cortés and Emperor Moctezuma. A fascinating literary historical fiction.

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Book 2 of 2026: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall A queer Classic that took me longer to read than expected; it was depressing but I think it was the anger that slowed me down. This is a semi autobiographical novel and while I had some issues with it, I think it was an important read.

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

What We Can Know By Ian McEwan This was my first McEwan and I need to read more, I loved his writing style it reminds me of Julian Barnes in the way it has such beauty in the prose yet easy to read. I found myself wanting to go back and reread part one after I finished part two.

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

While there is a lot of themes playing out here, this might be the most accessible of the Woolf novels I’ve read. I found it interesting to see these four characters try to understand love and marriage. We have different classes, two men and two women all with ideas of what society expects of them.

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle (translated by Sophie Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell) It’s interesting how despite each book being about repeating the same day over and over, the books explores different ideas and concepts. Am I the only one that doesn’t trust Henry Dale?

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I’m calling BS but I don’t expect any better from SMH

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin I adored this Australian classic; I am so glad to finally read it. Sybylla is such an interesting character & I know this is considered as autobiographical, it’s just we don’t get enough headstrong feminist women in fiction like this…& this was written in 1901

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Or Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, or so many others

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I think I’ve read too many Russian novels to think Amor Towles offered anything interesting

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

74! That’s impressive. I’m not happy with some of the top books. Gentleman of Moscow and Book Thief are some of my most hated books

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Loving ABC’s radio national’s Top 100 Books of the 21st Century. So far I’ve read 3 and loved them both (Middlesex, Piranesi and Lincoln in the Bardo)

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Forget my birthday, I want to celebrate International Translation Day!

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Yes I do have a spreadsheet tracking all new albums I’ve listened to this year.

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I always wanted to learn Latin but this is the the words I expected to learn

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Reading this I’m reminded how much I love reading classics and I should read more. This was funny and I really loved the gothic references, however I don’t think this is as good as Pride and Prejudice, but there will be more Jane Austen in my life…hopefully soon.

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Rapture by Emily Maguire As much as I enjoyed this novel, I spent too much time wondering about the circumstances, who would want to become pope with so much to hide. It can’t be easy to do anything secretly when the entire world watches your every step.

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

All good, I assumed correctly but then my brain started to over think it

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Or maybe you’re referring to 1993’s Nirvana

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Not me, but considering your love for King, I think Joe Hill is a good pick

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán (translated by Sophie Hughes) I loved this novel and the perfect way to end #witmonth. It was so great to see a female protagonist in her 40s. This was an interesting look at class and the way the story unfolded kept me constantly thrilled.

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías (trans. by Heather Cleary) I really like Trías‘s style, this book was a little haunting, tense and thrilling. This strange outbreak of toxic algae kind of feels very relevant (see the news from South Australia). I don’t think I’m a horror fan but I love literary horror.

Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías (translated by Heather Cleary)

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

My Friends by Fredrik Backman (translated by Neil Smith) The novel starts off well and I really enjoy it; but then it keeps going and going and going and I end up getting annoyed. The writing style just doesn’t work for me in novel form, this could have been a short story!

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Happy International Lefthanders Day to all my fellow lefties

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Counterattacks at Thirty by Sohn Won-Pyung (trans by Sean Lin Halbert) Witty & comical novel but what I really liked is the way the people around you influence your life views. There was a character turning ultra conservative because she had a child. However the main character became an anarchist

Counterattacks at Thirty by Sohn Won-Pyung (Translated by Sean Lin Halbert)

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

We Do Not Part by Han Kang (translated by E. Yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris) I loved just how much this novel changes in part 2. The first part follows in an anxious rush but then part 2 turned into a trippy, psychological contemplation on life. A nightmare of a ride, one that needs to be experienced

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Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts This was a deeply existential look at climate change and a relationship but I still felt like it was such a struggle to read. I find it too much like an info dump more than a novel. Not really for me.